Reputation. We live to build it and perpetuate it. But tending to our image is a spiritual cul-de-sac, a relationship-draining, love-limiting, dangerously habitual way to emptiness. Performance junkies aren?t the only ones who get caught in the game; we?re all pretenders in some way. And eventually our humanness will show. We will fail, or someone will dirty our name, or our performance will fall short. When it does, then we?re left with what is truest about us. And at the bottom of our circumstances, we find that truth is rarely what we thought. Using lively stories and profoundly on-target perspective, Paul Thorson says we find a new sense of self ? and a new sense of God ? when we get over ourselves and start living beyond our image into the image of our Creator. It is then that the pressure of being good enough comes off and the peace that passes all understanding takes over. When we give up the personal pursuit of glory, stop trying to please others, and start fleeing the per
